Marxist view of the family
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- Created on: 27-04-16 11:13
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- Marxist view of the family
- nuclear family
- Serving the interests of the ruling class
- promotes capitalist ideology
- maintain the exploitation of the working class
- Friedrich Engels
- Nuclear family only became popular after the industrial revolution
- The ruling class encouraged it in order to protect the property and wealth they had accumulated
- Nuclear family only became popular after the industrial revolution
- Althusser
- capitalism to survive people must be taught how to think and behave,
- The family is the mechanism for doing so
- capitalism to survive people must be taught how to think and behave,
- Zaretsky
- Challenges parsons view of the family
- Nuclear family mainly benefits capitalism at the expense of other members of society
- socialization of children into capitalist ideologies
- unit of consumption
- Criticisms
- Ignores the wide increasing variety of family structures
- Feminists: ignores gender inequalities
- functionalists: ignores real benefits that the family provides
- 3 major functions
- 1. inheritance of property
- 2. ideological functions
- 3. unit of consumption
- nuclear family
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